Inventory of the Russian pictorial collection

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Title: Russian Pictorial collection
Date (inclusive): 1887-2005
Collection Number: XX764
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 21 manuscript boxes, 10 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 2 boxes of glass plates, 5 boxes of slides, 10 album boxes, 95 envelopes (35.95 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photographs, postcards, glass plates, and slides, depicting industrial, economic, cultural, religious, and military scenes in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, scenes of daily life, scenes from notable historical events, especially the Russian Revolution, and prominent personalities from the tsarist and Soviet periods.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Russian pictorial collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Slides (Photography)
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union -- Pictorial works
Industries -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions

envelope A

126 prints and postcards of the Romanov family, Imperial Russian nobility, military officers, and statesmen

envelope B

62 prints and postcards depicting Russian churches, icons, and other religious subjects

envelope C

63 prints and postcards depicting various scenes in Russia, Russian art, etc.

envelope D

11 prints depicting the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, with members of the clergy and parish

envelope mE

8 prints depicting Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Dukes Mikhail Aleksandrovich and Sergei Aleksandrovich, Russian Imperial military officers, and a water color portrait of Napolean

envelope m*F

2 prints of the 2nd Artillery Brigade, Feb 3, 1914, and Commanders of the Artillery Household Corps 1900.

envelope G

100 postcards depicting works of art, museum pieces, paintings, buildings, cities and scenes of daily life in Tsarist Russia

envelope H

87 postcards depicting works of art, museum pieces, paintings, buildings, cities and scenes of daily life in Tsarist Russia

envelope mI

57 prints, distributed by the Soviet Government, 1950, depicting social conditions in the Soviet Union

envelope mJ, online digital

1 print of officers of the Eesti Soomusrongide Diviisi Juhtkord (Estonian Armored Trains Division) taken during the Russian Revolution

envelope mK

1 print of members of the Russian socialist organization Svobodnoge Slovo, taken at a banquet in honor of Leo E. Deutsch, New York City 1915

album fL

1 album containing 50 prints depicting scenes in rural Russia, ca. 1900, and miscellaneous prints, postcards and magazine illustrations

box 1

Glass slides of scenes in Tsarist Russia, including places of exile in Siberia, as well as of activities of the Cheka in Kiev during the civil war

envelope M

2 postcards of the Ural Mountains and 1 postcard of Serdobol (Sortavala, Finland)

envelope mN

1 print of a painting by F. Alexeev depicting a view of the Winter Palace and the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg. Original in the Tretiakov State Gallery, Moscow

envelope O

1 print of a painting depicting a Russian Imperial officer of the 11th Hussar Regiment in 1839

envelope mP

2 prints of Lt. General Chichagoff

envelope Q

1 print of Ivan Goremykin

envelope R

1 print of N.I. Grigorovich

envelope S

1 print of Aleksandr I. Guchkov

envelope T

1 print of Vladimir N. Kokovtsov

envelope U

1 print of Alexander Krivoshein

envelope V

2 prints of pavel N. Miliukov

envelope W

2 prints of Mikhail V. Rodzianko

Scope and Contents note

(1 is a dupilicate of the other).
envelope X

1 print of Sergei V. Rukhlov

envelope Y

2 prints of Sergei D. Sazanov

Scope and Contents note

(1 a duplicate of the other)
envelope Z

1 print of Andrei I. Singarev

envelope AA

2 prints of Petr A. Stolypin

envelope AB

1 print of Vladimir Sukhomlinov

envelope mAC

1 print of General Alexander A. Gairngrass, Chief of the Railway Guards of the Chinese Eastern Railway 1901

envelope AD

1 print depicting a group of Russian chemists at the Mendeleev Congress in St. Petersburg 1911

envelope AE

1 print of Viacheslav Plehve

envelope AF

1 print of Serge Witte

envelope AG, online digital

2 prints of Gregori Rasputin

Scope and Contents note

(1 is autographed)
envelope AH, online digital

1 print of Princess Irina Aleksandrovna with Prince Felix F. Yusupov

envelope AI

2 prints of Alexandra Fydorovna, Empress of Russia

Scope and Contents note

(1 is a duplicate of the other).
envelope AJ

1 print of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia 1868-1918

envelope mAK

1 print of Nicholas II, and Grand Dukle Heritier

envelope AL

4 prints (and negatives) depicting Imperial Russian and Imperial Japanese officers during negotiations for settling new boundaries on Sakhalin island; 1 print (and negative) of the Russian Embassy staff in Tokyo. P. Voskevich appears in 2 prints

envelope AM

1 print of a poster depicting activities in the Russian Revolution of 1905

envelope AN

1 print depicting the Duma in session circa 1915-1916

envelope AO, online digital

83 prints, issued by the Russian Provisional Government, depicting scenes of the Russian revolution and beginning of the civil war 1917

envelope AP, online digital

32 prints depicting various scenes and events of the Russian Revolution 1917

envelope AQ

9 prints relating to Vladimir Ipatieff: 6 prints depicting him (one with his wife), 1 print of his mother Anna, 1 print of the model of his bomb, and 1 print of his brother's house at Ekaterinburg where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered 1870-1939

envelope AR

1 print of a group shot of the Maritime Regional People's Assembly (Provisional People's Assembly of the Far East)

envelope AT

1 print depicting prominent representatives of various Allied commissions to Siberia circa 1918-1920

envelope m*AU

1 print of the International Military Police in Siberia circa 1919

album fAV

1 album containing 32 prints taken by Henry T. Conserva, who served on board the USAT Mount Vernon, which evacuated Czech soldiers from Siberia 1919

envelope AW

9 prints depicting the atrocities committed by the Chrezvychainaia Komissiia po Bor'be s Kontry-Revoliutsiei I Sabotazhem against the White Russian forces in Kiev circa 1920

envelope AX

4 prints of the Wrangel Russian (White) Army forces concentrated on the peninsula of Gallipoli circa 1921

envelope AY

5 prints of Russian-Germans in Russia during the famine of 1922-1923

envelope AZ

1 print of N.I. Podvoiskii and Tibor Szamuely 1919 May

envelope BA

11 prints of Lev Trotskii and his wife in Mexico

envelope BB

2 negatives of posters from the 1930's

envelope BC

21 prints depicting the construction of the Dnieprostroi water power plant and its opening on October 10, 1932

envelope BD

17 prints of the Kramatorsk Machine Tool Factory, in Kramatorsk

envelope BE

1 print of depicting members of the Politbureau

envelope BF

2 prints of Viacheslav M. Molotov 1945

envelope BG

2 prints of Grigorii Fedorovich Fedorov (1891- ), Soviet Government official

envelope mBH

35 prints of the ten-day festival of Turkmenian literature and art in Moscow 1955 October 14-23

Scope and Contents note

Includes opera, dramatic performances, and concerts of musical and dance ensembles.
box 33

44 prints of men and women receiving the Order of Lenin, the Stalin Prize, and the Hero of Socialist Labor Award

Scope and Contents

Envelope mBI
envelope BJ

42 prints of the theater in Moscow, including prints of plays 1956

envelope BK

24 prints of Palaces of Culture and People's Universities in the Soviet Union 1962

envelope BL

28 prints of geologists looking for oil and other minerals throughout the Soviet Union

envelope mBM

21 prints of political leaders going through industrial plants, including prints of Nikita Khrushchev

envelope BN

28 prints of cultural events such as ballet, operas, art exhibits, dramatic performances, and sporting events

envelope m*BO

22 prints depicting the life and work of the Dombas miners 1950

envelope BP

98 prints depicting conditions in post-war Russia, intended to glorify the various achievements of Stalin and the Soviet system in general, in the fields of medicine, agriculture, industry, etc. circa 1945-1950

Scope and Contents note

Printed slogans included.
envelope BQ

Prints depicting conditions in post-war Russia, intended to glorify the various achievements of Stalin and the Soviet system in general, in the fields of medicine, agriculture, industry, etc. (continued)

envelope mBR

Prints depicting conditions in post-war Russia, intended to glorify the various achievements of Stalin and the Soviet system in general, in the fields of medicine, agriculture, industry, etc. (continued)

envelope BS, online digital

16 prints of scenes in Latvian S.S.R., 1950, including prints of J. Peive, President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; Vilis Lacis, author; Andrejs Upits, author; and Anna Sakse, author

envelope BT

3 prints of the Russian opera singers M. Reisen, A. Pirogov, E. Gribova, and N.V. Salina

envelope BU

20 prints of the meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the death of American naturalist Luther Burbank, held on April 11, 1956, at the USSR society for cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Scope and Contents note

Includes a print of Richard H. Davis, 2nd secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (10 prints are duplicates of the others).
album fBV

1 scrapbook entitled Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, containing 30 prints depicting 13 men decorated for their heroism during World War II, and describing their merits 20 prints depicting Soviet life before and after World War II

album fBW

Circa 150 prints relating to the Soviet military

album fBX

Circa 300 prints mounted on 27 sheets, depicting life in the Soviet Union during World War II

album fBY

75 prints depicting Soviet life before and after World War II

album fBZ

120 prints depicting Soviet life before and after World War II

box 31

1 scrapbook entitled Stalingrad, containing 40 prints

Scope and Contents

Formerly located in album fCA.
album fCA

45 prints relating to Soviet arts

box 32

1 scrapbook entitled The Restoration of Soviet Cities, 1945 containing 50 prints

os_folder  1

22 prints mounted on 3 cardboard matting boards relating mainly to Soviet industry and agriculture

Scope and Contents note

Formerly located in album fCA.
envelope m*CB

1 print of a painting by Serov of a meeting of the State Council (Gosudarstvennyi Sovet) presided by the Emperor Nicholas II

envelope mCC

1 print depicting the building where the 6th congress of the Third International was held, Moscow 1928 July

envelope CD

3 prints depicting Leonid Brezhnev, Konstantin Chernenko and Iurii Andropov

envelope CE

7 prints depicting Czech children at school in the Czech colony of Alexcandovka undated

box 3

91 slides depicting title pages of books in the Russian Art Collection at the Hoover Institution Library

box 4

91 slides depicting title pages of books in the Russian Art Collection at the Hoover Institution Library

box 5

91 slides depicting title pages of books in the Russian Art Collection at the Hoover Institution Library

box 6

91 slides depicting title pages of books in the Russian Art Collection at the Hoover Institution Library

box 7

91 slides depicting title pages of books in the Russian Art Collection at the Hoover Institution Library

envelope CF

10 prints and postcards depicting the pretender to the throne Vladimir Kirilovich and his family, taken in the 1950's, and Romanov coat of arms

box 8

146 posters, 1969-1987, depicting Lenin and the Revolution; 62 posters, 1967-1969, depicting political, economic, and social conditions in the Soviet Union since the Revolution

envelope CG

141 prints depicting scenes of daily life in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as military operations and parades, buildings, public works, and political figures, including Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov

envelope CH

Prints depicting scenes of daily life in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as military operations and parades, buildings, public works, and political figures, including Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov (continued)

envelope CI

Prints depicting scenes of daily life in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as military operations and parades, buildings, public works, and political figures, including Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov (continued)

envelope CJ

Prints depicting scenes of daily life in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as military operations and parades, buildings, public works, and political figures, including Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov (continued)

envelope CK

Prints depicting scenes of daily life in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as military operations and parades, buildings, public works, and political figures, including Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov (continued)

envelope CL

Prints depicting scenes of daily life in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as military operations and parades, buildings, public works, and political figures, including Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov (continued)

envelope CM

5 prints depicting American Red Cross ambulances and buses in Vladivostok, Siberia circa 1919

envelope CN

9 prints of churches and other buildings in Moscow, Ostankino, and Nizhnii Novgorod 1889

envelope CT

40 prints of street scenes in Moscow during the August coup 1991

envelope CU

5 prints of bodies of victims of demonstrations in Baku 1990 January

envelope mCV

11 prints of scenes of demonstrations in Baku 1990 January

box 2

58 glass plate negatives and 1 film negative of individuals, groups, events, and buildings in Russia 1917 February-October

envelope CW

4 prints of atrocities against Armenians 1991 April-May

envelope DM

4 prints of the opening of former Estonian President Konstantin pats' grave and examination of his skull 1989-1990

envelope DN

2 prints of Leonid and Anna Andreev circa 1908

envelope DO

1 print of V.I. Lenin 1923 August

envelope DP

3 prints of scenes at Red Square, Moscow, and 2 prints of political placards in Kiev, on May Day 1993

envelope DQ

23 prints of socialists and political leaders of the Soviet Union 1918-1923

album fDR

7 albums of prints of operations of the Russian Imperial Kirasir Household Troops Regiment and of its veterans in emigration 1904-1974

album fDS

Albums of prints of operations of the Russian Imperial Kirasir Household Troops Regiment and of its veterans in emigration

envelope DT

10 prints of Soviet exploration activities in outer space 1984-1990

envelope DU

6 prints of Soviet leaders, including Anatolii Lunacharskii, Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Sergei Kirov, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Podgornyi, Leonid Brezhnev, and Aleksei Kosygin 1919-1965

envelope DV

131 postcards of buildings and miscellaneous scenes in Moscow and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, and of reproductions of Russian paintings undated

box 9

Oversize prints of Soviet cosmonauts and scenes related to Soviet space exploration

box 10

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities 1930-1940

box 11

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 12

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 13

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 14

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 15

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 16

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 17

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 18

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 19

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 20

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 21

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 22

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 23

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 24

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 25

Prints of scenes of Soviet industrial production and other economic activities (continued) 1930-1940

box 26

Prints, and some negatives, of scenes of Soviet Industrial production and other economic activities, and of Soviet armed forces 1930-1940

box 27

prints of prominent Soviet political, military and other leaders 1930-1940

box 28

Oversize caricatures of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin 1991

box 29

Prints of Joseph Stalin

box 30, folder 1

Russian Center, San Francisco 1948

box 30, folder 2

Greeting cards with images of V. I. Lenin 1984-1985

box 30, folder 3

Baron Petr Vrangel' undated

box 30, folder 4

"Society in Transition, Moscow" by photographer Zbigniew Stanczgn 2005

box 30, folder 5

Kornilov Shock Regiment undated

box 30, folder 6-7

Soviet government photographs, relating to social, political, economic and cultural conditions in the Soviet Union 1945-1948

box 34

Russian revolution photograph album approximately 1917-1919

Scope and Contents

Album including 24 prints of speeches by Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Grigorii Zinov'ev, enormous public gatherings in Palace Square in Petrograd (with Lenin speaking from a podium erected outside the Winter Palace), and scenes of everyday life in the former capital of the Russian Empire.
box 30, folder 8

Graduating class of the Simferopol' Women's High School 1887-1888

box 30, folder 9

Igor I. Sikorsky, 3 black and white portraits undated

box 30, folder 10

General Fedor Petrovich Rerberg undated

box 30, folder 11

Soviet press photograph of Vasilii Bliukher, Lazar' Kaganovich, Iosif Stalin 1930 July

box 30, folder 12

Schleissheim Displaced Persons Camp, New Year celebration 1949

box 30, folder 13

Naval officers undated

Scope and Contents

Includes 1 print of Admiral Mikhail Smirnov (chief of staff to Admiral Aleksandr Kolchark and Minister of Marine, All-Russian government, 1919), and 1 print of an unidentified group of naval officers.
box 30, folder 14

Postcards depicting Sergei Rakhmaninov, Vasilii Kachalov undated

box 30, folder 15

Postcards depicting Hermitage art collection undated

box 30, folder 16

Samarkand postcard undated

box 30, folder 17

October Revolution postcards undated

box 30, folder 18

New Year's greetings postcards undated

box 30, folder 19

International Women's Day greetings postcard 1963

box 36, envelope 1-7

Nikolaevskoe Kavaleriiskoe uchilishsche (Nicholas Cavalry School) negatives 1913, undated

Access

Original photographic negatives are not available until they have been reformatted. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact us for more information.

Scope and Contents

30 negatives depicting daily activities and individual officer candidates. Original envelope includes a detailed description for each numbered negative. The negatives are numbered 1-20 and 22-31; the original sleeve numbered 21 was empty.
box 35

Album of prints of Russians in interwar China and WWI Russian aviation 1914-1930s

Scope and Contents

May include photograph of 1931 China floods. Album creator and photographer unknown.
box 37, folder 1

1 album containing 167 prints depicting the Russo-Dutch Field Hospital of the Red Cross 1904-1905

Scope and Contents

Russo-Dutch Field Hospital of the Red Cross (Russko-Gollandskii polevoi lazaret Krasnago kresta) Manchuria, Chita, and Dubovskoe District in Primorskii Krai. Album of photographs taken by a Russian volunteer medic with the Russian Society of Red Cross, which was working in collaboration with its Dutch cohort, featuring the work of mobile field hospitals in remote regions to help Russian soldiers during the Russo-Japanese War. Contains 167 gelatin silver print photographs mounted recto and verso onto 21 heavy cardstock leaves. Photographs are in two sizes, the smallest measuring approximately 7.5 x 7.5 cm, and the largest 11 x 8 cm. Album made in Saint Petersburg by A.A. Schnell, illustrated with the iconic Red Cross emblem and both the Russian and Dutch flags in full color and engraved title. Images show soldiers in trenches, climbing lookouts, and one man particularly battle weary. There are scenes of men stationed at various posts, and engaging among locals - most being Manchurians, and some Chinese. A few photographs show Manchurians sporting long guns ready for battle as well. A quick-to-erect Red Cross hospital tent is shown in one photograph, appearing to be bursting at the seam with injured and recovering guests. A few scenes show rows of multiple white canvas tented horse-drawn carriages for collecting wounded soldiers. A cemetery was established to bury the dead. Photographs show varying types of crosses at the head of each grave suggest some of the deceased's faiths: Orthodox and Catholic or Protestant.
box 38, folder 1-2

Album of postcards of Russian and Soviet cultural figures and a photograph of Admiral A.V. Kolchak 1917-1960s

Scope and Contents

Album of postcards of Russian and Soviet cultural figures (actors, actresses, dancers, singers, etc.), and a photograph of Admiral A.V. Kolchak with explanation of persons depicted with him.